Team Meeting

This is cool. Official. A Plan.
Our 0630 group had a meeting this morning. Most all in attendance were meet competitors. The coach has a very reasonable philosophy and plan for the season. There are many short course meets leading up to nationals at the end of April..it is a good idea to have a plan for the season.

The national qualifying times are going to be inflated through the 2013 season. The way that the qts are determined by the top 10 finishers +a percentage averaged over three years. This year we take the top times from 2009, 2010 and 2011. Unfortunately, USMS let swimmers use tech suits in 2010 so qualifying times will be tech suit infected until 2014! Tech suits sucked and fouled up swimming. Money grab(Blue70). Bad move by USMS to continue swimming in tech suits for 2010 short course season. We all have to wait an extra year until inflated q times disappear.

This is my tentative plan for upcoming swim meets:

Feb 4 Rose Bowl Meet
1000 free
200 fly
200 IM

March 4 Cal Tech Pentathlon
all 50s, 100IM

April 1 UCLA Meet
100 fly
50 fly
100 free

April 14/15 Regional Meet
50/100 free
50/100 fly
1000 free, or last distance swim on Sunday

National Meet, end of April
50/100/200 fly
50/100 free
100 or 200 IM